To make the background more ‘watercolor-y’, I put small puddles of water in a few places and let it drip and dry. Most notable in the lower right of the image…

I colored the face with Copic Markers:

E11, E13, E23, E25, E27 for the face and eyes.

BG72, YR23 and Bv04 for the shadows

R81, R83, R85, R39 for the lips

The hair is lots of fun to create. I used Art Anthology Velvet paints in Kona and Truffle, mixing the colors to get just the right shade. I applied them and let them dry for just 30 seconds – and then swirled around in the paint with the handle end of a paint brush to get that texture. The paint is dimensional and dries amazingly fast for a textured application.

I stamped the sentiment and the frame in Stazon Midi Gothic Purple. Then I stamped again in Versamark, just so very slightly offset, to create a shadow image underneath; and heat embossed these with Ranger’s Queen’s Gold embossing powder.

A bit of bling was added to the frame in her hair (that’s what I designed that frame for in Frame Set 1!), and along the right side of the card.

I honestly can’t decide which card I like more. I like both for different reasons. So which one is your favorite?

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About Sally Lynn MacDonald

Sally Lynn often mixes her love of creating and teaching art with her high-tech side – blending a love of handmade art with hybrid-digital media in what she playfully calls her ‘studio lab’. Every now and then her large-format printer is subjected to printing on a surface that definitely is not listed in the owners’ manual.

She is a maven for studio organization, using her abilities to use spreadsheets and databases to bring order from chaos. “It’s marvelous when the right and left brain actually work together in the studio!” Read More…